The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
Nearly Seventeen thousand Inhab-
itants Now Located Within
Our Limits,
And the Inc ease Now More Rapid
Than I've Known in Our
Past History.
Brilliant Prospects for the Future
Assured by Our Many New
Business Enterprises.
fmporia Making Her Way to the
Front With Strides that
are Gigantic.


the interest of new city directory, by
Mr.. A. Barnard, reveals the fact that
the number of names of adults for the
new directory will be a little over $3.50,
or an increase of between 500 and
1000 names over the directory of
1855. This is equivalent to an in
crease of actual population of about
800 or 1890, according TO accepted
rules for getting populations of cities
from directory reports. In New York
city it is estimated that every name in
the directory represents five persons; in
Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo
and Kansas City three and one-half is
the estimate. Taking the low figure of
three for each name, this shows that
the actual population of Emporia is
now 16. $50. or an increase of 5,S66
since 1885.
This increase speaks well for our
beautiful city, as it has all taken place
during what has been classified as a
rather dull time and one that was
thought to have been far from being of
unusual progress or enterprise. Indeed,
it has been classified as one of sleepi-
ness and inanition on the part of
the city.
This being SO, what may be expected
now that genuine stirring up has
taken place, and business and improve
ments of all kinds are progressing in
such an active and lively manner as
has never been known in all our pre-
vious history?
With our new water works being
pushed as rapidly as possible, our
many new roads coming in, new work
shops for the Missouri, Kansas s.
Southwestern, almost a certainty that
the big shops of the Santa Fe system
will come to this place, the new stock
yards, new manufactures assured,
boring for coal, petroleum, gas or wa
ter, and the many other business en-
and confidence given to our real estate
sales by the heavy investments lately
made by eastern parties who are in a
position to know just what may be ex.
peeted in railroad circles, and who are
not liable to err when placing their
funds, there is no limit to our future
prospects and growth.
The real estate and the building
booms are gaining ground each day.
/ and it is now as contemporary very
| truthfully says: 1.-The wonderful and
almost startling rush to the sunny
/ <Df ofin
unabating fury. Never in the annals
of history was such wild stampede
made from the overcrowded east to the
welcoming and outstretched arms OF
our fair young state. AS we'll try to
dam the mighty streams from theiI
flow to the oceans, or stay the mighty
comet in its orbit, as to check the
great, swelling impetuous rush of i'm
migration that is pouring into Kansas
on every train from the four corners OF
the earth. Every paper in the stat
tells the same story. People coming
from the east! People coming from the
west! People coming from the north
People coming from the south!-from
everywhere 1t reminds us of the great
rush to the gold fields in the early days
when everybody was wild with excite
ment and thousands were getting rich
in a single day. Towns sprang up ther
like magic on every hand; so they are
now in Kansas. The only difference is
that the treasure in the mines was un-
certain and a matter of luck, and the
untold wealth in the fertile lands OF
Kansas is sure of return and not q
matter of speculation. And share in
a Kansas corner lot in the hand il
worth two undeveloped gold mines in
the BUSH"